fortune vs reverse

fortune

noun
  • The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident. 

  • Destiny, especially favorable. 

  • A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller. 

  • A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie. 

  • One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast. 

  • Good luck. 

  • A large amount of money. 

verb
  • To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage. 

  • To provide (someone) with a fortune. 

reverse

noun
  • A piece of misfortune; a setback. 

  • The act of going backwards; a reversal. 

  • A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke. 

  • The opposite of something. 

  • The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. 

  • The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse. 

  • A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed. 

  • The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side. 

adj
  • Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction. 

  • Turned upside down; greatly disturbed. 

  • In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template. 

  • Reversed. 

  • Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction. 

  • To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route. 

verb
  • To transpose the positions of two things. 

  • To engage reverse thrust on (an engine). 

  • To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal. 

  • To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence. 

  • To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite. 

  • To change totally; to alter to the opposite. 

  • To place (a set of points) in the reverse position. 

  • To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa. 

  • To move from the normal position to the reverse position. 

  • To overthrow; to subvert. 

  • To turn something inside out or upside down. 

How often have the words fortune and reverse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )